Zev

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by Zev 16y ago
I actually hadn't looked too closely at MacRuby. Might I suggest that you do so? ...but compared to (particularly) Lua it's just not fast enough. I beg to differ; Here's why: http://christopherroach.com/2010/01/21/ruby-fibonacci-shooto
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by Zev 16y ago
MacRuby isn't a scripting language, though. Or, it doesn't have to be. It can get compiled down to machine code if you're making an application in it.
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by Zev 16y ago
Nope. No relationship between the two, besides a few helper methods on NSCFString to go either way. And characterAtIndex: will return a unichar, not a char, anyway.
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by Zev 16y ago
Yup, very bad for a lot of smaller IRC networks; 3.2.8.1 is the latest version of UnrealIRCd and what most of them (assuming that they are up to date) are on.
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by Zev 16y ago
Yeah, TechEd is not supposed to be an announcement conference. Neither is WWDC. Aside from the keynote, the rest of the week is under NDA and devoted to teaching developers about the new tech in Mac/iPhone/iPad/whatever and helping them f
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by Zev 16y ago
You could solve this easily by only activating it after a period of inactivity. Stop typing for a second, and the suggestion box pops up. Xcode has a preference (well, two) that help out with autocorrection. I heard about it at last WWDC,
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by Zev 16y ago
FWIW, If you use the key commands, the first and third issues are avoidable -- though, I have run into all of the issues when using the mouse. There's a key combo for that opening the find and replace menu; ctrl + cmd + c. Then you can tab
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by Zev 16y ago
WebKit proper doesn't offer at this point I've got a radar open with Apple about Safari's performance (that I know WebKit people have at the very least seen ) that essentially boils down to this reason.
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by Zev 16y ago
Why does everything have to be open source?
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by Zev 16y ago
Aside from the custom keyboard (which seems to not always be on screen? See: the third image.) and syntax highlighting that looks rather ugly, for i is rather sparse on features. Not something that I'd pay $10 for yet.
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by Zev 16y ago
It might have been better as a more generic "Ask HN: Who's hiring interns?" thread. But, nothing against the rules about this sort of post (not to mention that there's always the "Ask HN: Who's Hiring <redux>" threads that pop up ev
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by Zev 16y ago
There are more reasons to check for an email than simply validation. Perhaps you want to detect emails in a field and let people click/tap on them to send that person an email? Don't want to let people send email off to foo@bar.baz now, do
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by Zev 16y ago
If this was that big of a deal for an online site in which you say whether you like something or not, I'd have thought that sites would hide the username from everyone until you voted on a comment/story/etc. However, in practice, its not th
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by Zev 16y ago
Kind of agreed, but for other reasons. It isn't important to me who you (the commenter) are in particular. However, a way to message you (the commenter) would be nice, short of having to post "Hey, mind emailing me? I'd like to talk to you
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by Zev 16y ago
Whats your point? Or rather: How does your point differ from my point? You're not getting one program for $385; you're getting multiple programs in one suite . 5-6 programs at $385 or 3-4 programs at $220. For example, Adobe CS Design St
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by Zev 16y ago
It also increases Adobe's bottom-line because poor university students learn to use the tool by downloading the pirated version while they are in school (the 'edu' version of Photoshop was still $300 last I checked), then they pay for the
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by Zev 16y ago
In this way it's not terribly different from a lot of jobs. Sure, it's much better than most, but I would be careful about thinking life as an artist is truly an escape from the rigors of the real world. FWIW, my suggestion was specifical
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by Zev 16y ago
Art. Probably not a job, but for a very nice hobby, try it out. Draw or paint something. Find an old camera (film-based) and take some pictures. Then develop the pictures yourself in a darkroom. Sounds like a a bunch of simple tasks, right?
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by Zev 16y ago
that doesn't mean they run out and buy another failed phone OS for a whole lot of money Has webOS really failed?
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by Zev 16y ago
The issue isn't "Can Android run on x86" but "Can the shiny new features Google is developing run on Android phones that already exist?"
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by Zev 16y ago
Yup. I started my senior year of high school when I was 16. I was 17 when the year ended. Didn't skip a year, just started a year earlier than most people. But, thats another story. FWIW, I'll be done with undergrad work at college at 21 (a
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by Zev 16y ago
5 years ago I used to think I had the coding thing down pretty pat I'm not nearly as arrogant as to think that I know everything in my particular domain(s) of interest. I can look at whatever language(s) I consider myself proficient in an
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by Zev 16y ago
The first real line of code I wrote (I'm not counting poorly crafted HTML) was when I was 16, as a senior in high school. And that was Visual Basic. We didn't do C until the second half of the year (and by this point, I was 17). Which right
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by Zev 16y ago
(Though even if they do, how many great apps to take advantage of it will be out within one year?) This is probably grasping at straws, but maybe 10.7 will finally be focused on Apple building something for the end user with all the nice
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by Zev 16y ago
They were all unusably bad. I wish there was a return policy for apps. Not really a "policy", but, in iTunes, if you: 1. Go to Purchase History 2. Report a problem 3. Fill out the form with the for your refund request You can p
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by Zev 16y ago
The Newton had a garbage collector with NewtonScript. And the Newton only had something like 640kB of RAM. Although, I don't think the decision to leave it out was arbitrary or solely to piss off developers. Apple likely wants to have as
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by Zev 16y ago
LLVM/Clang might look impressive but AFAIK not even Apple is using it to ship production code. Now, see, thats just plain wrong. Apple ships some pretty big products that are built with clang/llvm: Xcode, OpenGL and OpenCL to name a few.
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by Zev 16y ago
Is Apple already using this compiler with OS X? Its in use for some products in Snow Leopard; Xcode, OpenGL, (and, I believe) OpenCL and Automator are built with Clang. Or is it mostly cool stuff for coders, but mostly transparent for
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A look at how malloc works on the Mac(cocoawithlove.com)
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by Zev 16y ago
Filesystems were never quite ready for it.

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